Sometimes training sessions just isn' enough for some...
Bird spinning an egg like a basketball. Mother bird is obviously not very amused.
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Friday, September 14, 2012
Bird Cartoons - September 2012
Birdie mistook Whisky for water and got drunk.
Introducing Mynah. The one in grey is always confused.
Chickie Cartoons - September 2012
Chickie looks for Wormie starting from Wormie's home.
Chickie goes around the farm looking for Wormie. Found Sheep and asked if he'd seen Wormie.
Chickie Cartoons - August 2012
Introducing Chickie...
Introducing Chickie and Wormie.
Chickie wonders what 'friends for another day' means...
Hare and Tortoise Cartoon - First will be Last
Hare and Tortoise Race Cartoon
Another way to understand 'Last will be First, First will be Last'.
Furry Pets - August Pets
From left: Furry Bear, Furry Piggy and Furry Kitty
Sketched and Rendered using Paper FiftyThree Apps
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Furry Pets - Month of July 2012
FURRY DOG (Pencil Sketched on Paper and colored on the iPad)
FURRY RABBIT [I] (Pencil Sketched on Paper and colored on the iPad)
FURRY RABBIT [II] (Pencil Sketched on Paper and colored on the iPad)
Basketball Cartoons - Month of July 2012
I was suddenly assigned to be the teacher-in-charge of the Basketball Girls Team for this semester onwards. Yes... suddenly. An email was all to inform me of the change and hoped I didn't mind that decision made by the school. Well, as it turned out my new assignment gave me more opportunities to do what I loved during my free time... draw cartoons for my students.
Following are cartoons I drew for the team as I conveyed different message to them during my debrief after every training session. My objectives are simple. I hope the students will be a better team and become more committed basketball players.
This is the first cartoon I drew for the girls just minutes before they board the bus for their second last zonal competition. The girls team had never won any games for the past three years. This cartoon serve to remind them to have fun in the game and it doesn't matter if they win or loose. If they should loose, then get back up and continue to work harder.
I observed that they girls needed more commitment to train and practice to be better basketball players than they are right now. They cannot continue to play ball like recreational players forever. This cartoon was made into bookmarks complete with lamination and given at the end of the training session. The message is to encourage the girls to take initiatives on their own to study and practice so that their ball handling skills would improve. I got inspired by Pistol Pete's training videos which I watched from YouTube. He was a legend in the NBA and was definitely very inspirational in his video on ball handling.
This one too turned into a book mark complete with lamination. Quote taken from a soccer coach to remind the girls that success requires lots of work in the background. Training doesn't just take place in the official training sessions. There are many things a sportsman would do outside training sessions to improve themselves. They think about their sports. They read up. They talk about it. They train extras on their own. A true champion works in-season and off-season with passion and commitment even when nobody sees them, or knows about what they do on their off-days.
This cartoon above did not turn out to a bookmark this time. It was simply reduced (in physical size), printed on paper and every one had a little cut-out of the cartoon. This cartoon was inspired by the fact that girls team did not have the crucial experience in terms of years of playing basketball compared to the better teams in other schools where good players from the primary schools gained direct admission to the secondary schools. Nevertheless, I thought the girls cannot give the same excuse year after year that they have less experience in playing because they can always play catch up. That requires more real training. It requires the team to taking practices seriously plus lots of self-intiatives to work skills out and practice on their own. Successful athletes are not produced in a day.
Sunday, July 8, 2012
What is that?
Whenever I draw 'Birdie', someone will never fail to say 'Is that a chicken?' Haha... nope that's not chickie. That's birdie. My bird cartoon character humanized to poke fun at humans or Singaporean habits and culture. This cartoon shows my wife thinking it's a 'Sparrow' this time.... =)
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
MOVIE POSTERS - Movies that will never be shown
'Welcome to the Island'
'NIGHTMARE'
Drawn randomly on Ink on A4 paper.
Scanned and finger painted on the iPad using the Sketchbook Pro Apps.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Expectations
A teacher aspires his students to do well. But that may not be in-line with the students' desire to want to perform. When this happens, we have a conflict of expectations.
This cartoon was done during a workshop session for teachers on, well you got it, 'Expectations'.
Clarity
Sometimes we wonder as teachers, are we really so bad at giving instructions? Were they unclear all the time? Or perhaps it could be the students' choice not to listen and absorb?
Should teachers go to the class to motivate and to inspire? In what ways will a learner be expected to be motivated and inspired if what he is about to do isn't his cup of tea? lacking both in aptitude and interest. Worst still is not what he had chosen to do?
Great teachers inspire. I agree.
But it takes a miracle for a disinterested to be inspired the way it is traditionally expected (of a great teacher).
This cartoon was done during a workshop session for teachers on, 'Clarification'.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Morning Exercise - 27/01/2012
Morning Exercise
Today there are lots of side-steps movements. I thought it would be fun to put that on record. =)
Morning Exercise - 21/01/2012
Morning Exercise
Our school started a morning exercise program this year.
The exercise program involves all students and teachers for the first 45 minutes of the day on every Friday.
My class 3A2 was assigned to do rubber band workouts @ the roof top. That is very cool.
The bands have not arrived yet so students are just pretending to workout with bands.
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